We are not born for ourselves alone.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

Let us not go over the old ground but rather prepare for what is to come.

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.